Famous Deaths for 6th March 2022

1252 – Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1616 – Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1933 – Anton Cermak, American politician (44th Mayor of Chicago, 1931-33), dies 23 days after being shot in Miami at 59
1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), dies of pneumonia at 93
1954 – Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80
1959 – Fred Stone, renowned American circus performer and broadway actor (Alice Adams), dies at 85
2018 – Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet and academic (Noctuary), dies at 61
2020 – Henri Richard, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center (record 11 Stanley Cups; 9 x NHL All Star; Montreal Canadiens), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 84

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